A ugly video emerged final week of a former Russian jail inmate who had defected to Ukraine after being recruited by the Kremlin-linked personal army group Wagner, exhibiting him being repeatedly struck with a sledgehammer, Guardian reported.
The video of the killing of Yevgeny Nuzhin was posted over the weekend by the Wagner-linked Telegram channel Gray Zone by which Nuzhin was proven mendacity down along with his head taped to a brick wall as an unidentified man in fight clothes hits him with a sledgehammer.
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Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, had been serving a 24-year jail sentence for a homicide he dedicated in 1999 when he was freed in July. He was later conscripted into Wagner, a army group run by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a strong Russian businessman and an in depth ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Following Yevgeny Nuzhin’s seize by Ukrainian forces in September, he gave a sequence of interviews by which he mentioned he had joined the Wagner group to get out of jail. He additionally criticised the Russian management and expressed his need to affix the Ukrainian forces.
Yevgeny Nuzhin’s son Ilya Nuzhin instructed Guardian that his household discovered of their father’s loss of life by way of Telegram, which left them “horrified”.
“Our complete household was in tears watching the video … he was murdered like an animal,” Ilya Nuzhin mentioned.